What made those detainee photographs so important from the start is that they depict brutal abuse well outside of the Abu Ghraib facility and thus reveal to Americans -- and the world -- that America's torture was not, as they've been constantly told, limited to rogue sadists at Abu Ghraib and the waterboarding of three bad guys. Instead, our torture regime was systematic, pervasive, brutal, fatal, and -- becuase it was the by-product of conscious policies set at the highest levels of government -- common across America's "War on Terror" detention regime. These photographs would have documented those vital facts; combated the false denials from torture apologists; fueled the momentum for accountability; and revealed, in graphic and unavoidable terms, what was truly done by America's government. But a Democratic-led Congress, at the urging of a Democratic President, is now taking extraordinary steps -- including a new law which has no purpose other than to suppress evidence of Americ

That should pop the bubbles quite resoundingly of those trying to claim that the Democratic Party is Liberal. Conservatives are as Conservatives do. And Conservatives do tend to do atrocious things and then hide the evidence of it. The Republican'ts, and the Democrats are both conservative political parties, showing that the idea that there is real choice in American Government is just a myth.

Truth is you have a Center-Right party (Democrats) and a Far-Right party (Republicans). Mind you conservative ideology is not, or at least should not be automatically toxic, but these days it is.

Although, we can enjoy the small differences that Obama has from the previous regime. After all, he just got the Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush!